Kate Fletcher
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2014
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IWD and WoW
Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. Often seen as frivolous, flippant and female (not that the three necessarily go together!), discussions about fashion are not always taken seriously. This is a shame as fashion has the power to address important and weighty issues. Because fashion is a system and process that impacts all of us at many levels […]
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An Anti-Capitalist Approach to Fashion
There hasn’t yet been a book that links fashion and capitalism so directly, so ‘Stitched Up. The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion’ by Tansy Hoskins, is something of a first and Tansy teases and picks at the threads of the industry, pulling them to unravel dark undersides that are, so she argues, caused by the system […]
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2013
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Habit(at) Field Day
Last week we held our second ever Field Day at The Trampery in London Fields. We chose the theme Habit(AT) to provide the frame for our thinking around issues related to urbanisation, sustainable cities and the role that fashion can and could play. We hold Field Days as they are a way for us to share […]
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Handbook of Fashion Studies
This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the field of fashion – its methodologies, current debates, history and future. Both Sandy Black and Kate Fletcher have contributed chapters.
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Better Lives?
Image courtesy of the Local Wisdom Project. Photography: Paige Green It doesn’t take much more than a casual saunter down your local high street to know that in the English-speaking world we’re getting fatter. One in four British people[i] and over one in three American adults[ii] are classified as clinically obese. Obesity has been described […]
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2012
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Fashion & Sustainability: Design for Change
Fashion & Sustainability: Design for Change by Kate Fletcher and Lynda Grose examines how sustainability has the potential to transform fashion; it explores ideas around the transformation of fashion products, systems and design practice.
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2008
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Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys by Kate Fletcher presents information about lifecycle sustainability impacts of fashion and textiles and examines practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation.
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